Spring Ventures is the investment platform for Sunil Paul, a successful serial entrepreneur and investor. He typically invests early in the company's lifecycle. He likes to help companies spring up, spring forward, spring with renewal, and spring with life.
Entrepreneurial
Sunil started and ran multiple startup companies. He started the first anti-spam and email security company, Brightmail, sold to Symantec for $370M. His first company was FreeLoader, an early internet company which was sold to a public company for $38M. He started the first ridesharing company, Sidecar, which sold assets to General Motors in 2016. Most recently, he ran a contest to launch a new idea to accelerate electric vehicle adoption called a "Mileage Purchase Agreement." Details at https://springfreeev.com
Investments
Spring Ventures and Sunil have made many successful investments including IPOs like Linkedin, Supportsoft, and Solazyme.
Some of the current portfolio companies include (alphabetically):
- Anno.co (aka Hypothes.is)
- Centaur Labs
- Codex
- Cognixion
- Diamond Foundry
- Stable
- Future Family
- Honest Buildings (sold to Procore)
- IRL
- JCK
- Kitchen United
- Mosaic
- Omnity
- Open Water
- Phylagen